Midwinter Day
| Author | : Bernadette Mayer |
| Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 1999-05-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780811224291 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0811224295 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (295 Downloads) |
Download or read book Midwinter Day written by Bernadette Mayer and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, Lenox, Massachusetts. "Midwinter Day," as Alice Notley noted, "is an epic poem about a daily routine." A poem in six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day-morning, afternoon, evening, night-to dreams again: ". . . a plain introduction to modes of love and reason/Then to end I guess with love, a method to this winter season/Now I've said this love it's all I can remember/Of Midwinter Day the twenty-second of December//Welcome sun, at last with thy softer light/That takes the bite from winter weather/And weaves the random cloth of life together/And drives away the long black night!"
